Kerry Shawn Keys | The Burning Mirror | Gazelle Books
The Burning Mirror Kerry Shawn Keys Author: Kerry Shawn Keys | ISBN: 0977252493 : 9780977252497 | Format: Paperback | Size: 140 x 215mm | Pages: 92 | Weight: .134 Kg. … Continue reading
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Lyn Lifshin | In Mirrors | Gazelle Books
Lyn Lifshin’s mirror poems may be taken individually and as a suite. Few poets can extend a metaphor in so many directions. Lifshin’s poetic power is evident in these imagistic variations on the theme of ‘insight’ in its many facets. Continue reading
Priscila Uppal | Barry Callaghan | Essays on His Work | Gazelle Books
A great story teller, Barry Callaghan is one of the most distinctive man of letters Canada has ever produced. He is fascinated by the no-man’s land that stands between fiction and journalism. Politically and culturally engaged, he is a public scholar and acute critic in the tradition of Edmund Wilson. Barry Callaghan’s fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages. Continue reading
Sunnyoutside Press
Sunnyoutside Press strives to publish works of the highest quality and present them in a manner that enhances the reader’s experience. Our aim is to approach the production of our work the same way a poet approaches the poem — everything has a purpose. Continue reading
Jeffrey Winke
Jeffrey Winke lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in a downtown industrial loft with his wife, two-thirds of his children and a posse of four cats where he plies his skills as a PR counselor, magazine editor and adjunct university professor at the Milwaukee Center of Upper Iowa University. Continue reading
Zeitgeist Press
Zeitgeist Press started in 1986 to publish work from a group of poets generating tremendous heat at the Cafe Babar readings in San Francisco. It was originally a collective more than a traditionally structured press, which explains both the press strengths and weaknesses. All the way back to the late 1950s North Beach Coffee Gallery, there was a Thursday night open reading in San Francisco. This community spawned some incredible poets– Bob Kaufman, Richard Brautigan, Jack Micheline. Other top poets of the era passed through as well– Diane di Prima, Ginsberg first drafted Howl at a cubbyhole in North Beach, Jack Gilbert, Corso & Kerouac, Rexroth, Ferlinghetti, etc. The reading had died down, lost energy, by the mid-1980s when it moved to the Mission District in 1985. Bruce Isaacson and David Lerner, Julia Vinograd, Bana Witt, were the original partners in the 4 books that came out on Zeitgeist Press at the end of 1987. Lerner named the press and did publicity. Isaacson handled the business side, the mechanics, and acted as publisher. Both edited books by various authors, as did poets and others. Continue reading
Alex Gildzen
Alex Gildzen One of the legendary figures in the underground poetry movement. Alex Gildzen has a long list of chapbooks – from Into the Sea (Abraxas Press 1969) to Outlaw Dreams (Green Panda Press 2008). Some of his earliest poems were published by d.a. levy in Marrawannah Quarterly and by Hugh Fox in The Living Underground: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. His LSD poem appeared in the Masters & Houston classic Psychedelic Art. He edited the little magazine Toucan whose contributors included Gary Snyder and Paul Metcalf. In 2003 Gildzen appeared on Todd Moore’s “List of One Hundred Outlaw Poets.” Continue reading
Todd Moore | 1937 – 2010 | Dillinger poems
For your information gansta poetry in this country isn’t Bukowski’s invention, it’s mine. I’ve been making this kind of stuff since 1970 give or take. And, it has nothing to do with Bukowski’s style or subject matter. Bukowski was the pornagrapher of pussy and a damned good one at that. I’m the pornographer of violence. — Todd Moore Continue reading
S. A. Griffin
I remember sitting up half the night talking to S.A. Griffin in my book littered office about everything from poetry to crime to movies to getting drunk. I remember listening to S. A. read The Apes Of Wrath at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe. I remember the crazy outlaw talk talk talk in John Macker’s converted roadhouse home out in Bernal and the walk out into the wilderness beyond his house where he had made a slab rock altar for Sam Peckinpah’s typewriter. I remember the hour long interview S. A. Griffin did with me on his blogtalk radio show. Mostly, what I remember about the times that S. A. I get together is the excitement of the conversation. Which is really more like plugging into a shared energy source. — Todd Moore Continue reading